{"id":17307,"date":"2025-04-04T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/6500-year-old-hunting-kit-found-in-west-texas\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:20:32","slug":"6500-year-old-hunting-kit-found-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/6500-year-old-hunting-kit-found-in-west-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"6,500-Year-Old Hunting Kit Found in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 6,500-year-old hunting kit contained pieces of a spear thrower and a boomerang, as well as wood- and stone-tipped darts. It was found in a cave in West Texas near the remains of a small fire, and a pile of well-preserved human waste \u2014 evidence of those who had once sheltered inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The weapons, discovered over the past several years near Marfa, a small desert town about 40 miles northwest of the border with Mexico, could be among the oldest near-complete sets of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/tpwmagazine.com\/archive\/2025\/mar\/scout26_texcetera\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to archaeologists<\/a> at Sul Ross State University and the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers have yet to publish their full findings, but they said that dating suggested that one of the weapons was about 7,000 years old. The artifacts, researchers say, could help shed light on the complex ways in which ancient humans hunted for their prey and fixed their broken belongings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe were just stunned, because I\u2019ve never even seen that stuff,\u201d said Bryon Schroeder, the director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University and one of the lead researchers on the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The kit, which includes various pieces of weapons, as well as a folded antelope hide that was most likely used to sew a bag or clothing, was discovered over the past several years at the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/kgs.ku.edu\/san-esteban-rockshelter\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">San Esteban Rockshelter<\/a> \u2014 a partially collapsed cave between Marfa and Alpine, Texas. Dr. Schroeder and his team first began digging at the site in 2019, funded by a University of Kansas grant with a mission to search for the oldest evidence of humans in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Looters have ransacked the site for years, Dr. Schroeder said, making it challenging to find an untouched area to dig in. The researchers crawled between rocks, eventually locating a spot where they believed they might still find some salvageable artifacts. \u201cWe quickly found out that it\u2019s really, really, really deep in that part of the site,\u201d Dr. Schroeder said. \u201cThe reason we were out there is to find really old stuff,\u201d he added. \u201cSo we kept going deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That\u2019s when they found the first pieces of the hunting kit, he said. As they continued to dig, more parts of the kit were uncovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The number of tools and their location suggests that the cave was most likely used by hunters to take stock of and repair damaged weapons, Dr. Schroeder said. \u201cThey\u2019re just kind of doing an inventory, he added, \u201cand they\u2019re throwing out the broken stuff.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The oldest item is an atlatl, otherwise known as a spear thrower, which the researchers described in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/390434476_An_Atlatl_from_San_Esteban_Rockshelter_in_West_Texas_The_Oldest_in_North_America\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2023 paper<\/a> in The Journal of Big Bend Studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the researchers, Devin Pettigrew, an assistant professor of anthropology and an expert in ancient weaponry at Sul Ross State University, said that part of what made the find remarkable was the well-preserved wood, sinew and feathers. Usually, he said, \u201call we find left around are stone tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to the atlatl, the archaeologists also found a fragment of a boomerang, long wooden tips that might have been used to deliver poison to prey, and wooden darts and stone tips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cImagine traveling all this distance on foot daily and finding a place on the landscape that you know about, where you know you can go find shelter,\u201d Dr. Pettigrew said. The hunters, he added, would have possibly spent a night or two there, building a fire and working on their equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of rare to get this kind of perspective of ancient people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Christopher Morgan, a professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Nevada, Reno, described the findings as important, especially given that so few cave sites in North America remain with intact deposits. He was not involved in the study but has worked with Dr. Schroeder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe proof is in the pudding in terms of the close description of whether or not those artifacts really go together,\u201d he said, noting that objects from separate time periods could sometimes be found very close together. \u201cBut so far,\u201d he added, \u201cI think it looks pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though the age of the items is impressive, the more interesting thing, Dr. Morgan said, is the possibility that they belong to one weaponry kit that was stored in the cave thousands of years ago, and what that reveals about the behavior of ancient people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s what this represents \u2014 the kind of thing a hunter, living 6,800 years ago near the modern Texas-Mexico border \u2014 this is what they carried around with them every day,\u201d he said. \u201cIt shows that they were very well equipped with sophisticated technology. It shows that they were planning,\u201d Dr. Morgan added. \u201cHunter gatherers \u2014 they\u2019re just people like you and me, and they\u2019re super smart.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">James David Kilby, a professor of anthropology at Texas State University and an expert in hunter-gatherer archaeology who was not involved in the research, said it was rare to find tools that were so well preserved with the wood and other organic materials intact. \u201cThey sort of remind us that stone tools are just one component of these much more complex tool assemblages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Schroeder said that he and his team still had a lot of analysis to do on the weapons, as well as on the human feces, which can provide information about diet and DNA. They are working with Indigenous groups to gain approval before they proceed with some of that testing, he added. The researchers hope to eventually publish their findings in full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt makes the past way less abstract,\u201d Dr. Schroeder added of the findings. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, these people were people.\u2019\u201d He noted the intelligence of those who lived thousands of years ago and their remarkable adaptation to the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe kind of argue that all the time as archaeologists,\u201d he added. \u201cWell, here\u2019s the proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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